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Monday, December 31, 2012

2012 and December Goals: Success!

My 2012 goals were the above, and I am pleased to say that I was 90% successful with them!

1. I payed off my car! With a few extra payments here and there, my account balance is at $0.00! Now I will drive it until it becomes unsuitable for driving.

2. Where I'm docking myself 10% is on the marathon part. I'm 16 weeks into an 18 week training plan, and I will run my first marathon on January 13th, 2012! I would have run one sooner, but I had a major abdominal surgery in August and wasn't allowed to do any working out whatsoever for 6 weeks. As soon as I was cleared, I hit the road starting my training plan!

3. We left the continental United States and went to Hawaii! Though not out of the country completely, it's a different world and a long flight away. I'm counting it as a 100% victory!

4. I stayed in budget! We used a Google Doc spreadsheet to update every time we purchased something, and we opened a shared savings account to start pooling money from the get go. With that we were able to withdraw money upon items purchased and knew exactly how much we had left. Victory was ours!

More success! This bodes well for a great 2013 and the commitments and goals I'm putting in place. I'm excited to share those goals with you tomorrow, but I'll tell you ahead of time that most of them won't actually start until after January 13th. Making any exercise or food changes 12 days before my first marathon and after the weeks of training I've put in wouldn't be a good idea.

2012 was great for me! I had a lot of goals, and being that they were all firsts, I met almost all of them :) I also skyped with my parents on Christmas since I didn't go home to visit this year either!2013 is going to kick booty!

Hello! I'm Meghan. Around here you'll hear about my love of running and triathlon, my attempts at being stylish, and a little about life in general. I started running in 2011 with Couch to 5k and completed my first Ironman in 2014. It has been quite the journey. I'm always attempting to hone in on and update my style, so I document those attempts as well. Look around a little! Thanks for stopping by!